EC awards €8.5m to mobility projects
The European Commission has made €8.5 million available for three pilot projects focusing on vocational education and training mobility in Africa and the Western Balkans.
The European Commission has made €8.5 million available for three pilot projects focusing on vocational education and training mobility in Africa and the Western Balkans.
UK MPs have voted against a clause to require the government to seek to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU's Erasmus+ program.
The Erasmus+ Program has published a call for proposals for 2020, having an expected budget in excess of €3 billion – an increase of 12% over 2019.
The first 17 networks of institutions to form “inter-university campuses” across the EU and become part of the “European Universities” alliances have been announced by the European Commission.
Students who partake in the Erasmus+ program say it prepares graduates for work, while it boosts a sense of European belonging, two new studies have indicated. Meanwhile, Universities benefit from better placed to respond to the needs of the world of work.
The employment rate of recent graduates in the EU rose from 76% in 2014 to 82% in 2017 a report from the European Commission has revealed, with Malta topping the list with a graduate employment rate of 94.5%.
More than 400,000 HE students, trainees and staff spent time abroad in 2016/17 as Erasmus+, according to European Commission statistics – up from 330,000 during the previous academic year.
Amid the Brexit crisis, European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans said Brussels would adopt its contingency plans for the Erasmus+ program, along with other pan-European schemes and policies affected by Britain's predicted sudden exit.